Re: heavens-above Moon transit anomaly

From: Jonathan T Wojack (tlj18@juno.com)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 16:57:11 EDT

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Hello,

> > > I believe I've figured out what the problem is. It appears that
> > > the Moon position on the pass charts on heavens-above are
> > > geocentric. They do not take into the account horizontal 
> parallax,
> > > IF I've figured this out correctly.

Excuse me, but what is horizontal parallax?  I know what parallax is (at
least I think I do), but I've never heard the term "horizontal parallax."

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Jonathan T. Wojack                 tlj18@juno.com
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